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According to legal experts, while an explicit prescription of stoning as punishment for adultery has been removed from Iran's new penal code, stoning remains a possible form of punishment, since the penal code still lists it, without specifying when it should be used, and allows punishment to be based on fiqh (traditional Islamic jurisprudence ...
Feb 18, 2014 · As of this writing, at least 11 people await stoning sentences in Iran, most of which have gone against women as a means of control. Stoning is also a legal punishment in Pakistan, northern...
The use of stoning as a method of execution finds its roots in ancient Greece and in Judeo-Christian religious texts, and has been used to punish those accused of adultery, prostitution,...
Jul 14, 2022 · Stoning is a form of capital punishment whereby rocks are thrown at a person until they die. It is an execution method rooted in “ancient Greece and in Judeo-Christian religious texts” but has...
- Kate Samuelson
May 8, 2024 · The Taliban is not the only governing body that has endorsed stoning. In recent years, some countries have in recent years endorsed stoning as a punishment — Iran, Sudan and Nigeria, for...
- Ruchi Kumar
Feb 18, 2014 · Stoning was the official punishment for many crimes under the Taliban rule, but the U.S.-led occupation helped end that. Late last year, however, there were a series of worrying reports that...
While religious texts often give examples both with and without stoning, the Quran does not prescribe stoning as a punishment for any crime, mentioning only lashing as punishment for adultery. However most [1] scholars maintain that there is sufficient evidence from hadiths to derive a ruling.
